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The House Call Has a Routing Problem
Sprinter Health discovered the limit of telehealth: a screen cannot draw blood. Its answer is a house call built like a delivery network - human at the doorstep, software behind the wheel.
Mohawk Medbuy Built the Hospital Supply Chain Nobody Notices - Until a Drug Goes Missing
Hundreds of hospitals pool their purchasing power through one Burlington organization. The clever part is no longer just negotiating a lower price - it is turning invoices, shortages and clinical judgment into shared infrastructure.
Dropoff Built a Serious Business by Fixing the Least Glamorous Part of Delivery
The Austin company skipped the food-app frenzy and built for packages that cannot shrug off a late arrival. Its real product is not speed alone - it is a digital chain of custody, a professional handoff and fewer frantic phone calls.
DME Express Built a 24/7 Hospice Supply Machine - and Made Spare Capacity the Product
Hospice does not run on business hours. DME Express turned that awkward truth into a recurring logistics business built on local warehouses, surplus gear and technicians who answer the phone at 2 a.m.
Duet
Duet is a San Jose-based software company that builds an all-in-one dispatching, scheduling, and billing platform for non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) providers. Founded by Jing Zhu, the company started as a neighborhood carpooling app and pivoted into medical transportation, where it now helps ambulatory, wheelchair, and stretcher fleets of every size handle booking, real-time tracking, driver management, billing, and broker integration. Duet pairs its software with hands-on support - training, marketing, market research, and back-office staffing - aimed at helping small and growing NEMT operators get off the ground and scale.
SafeRide Health
SafeRide Health is a technology and services company rebuilding non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) for Medicaid and Medicare Advantage populations. Founded in 2016 by brothers Robbins and Whit Schrader with Ben Salter, SafeRide pairs proprietary scheduling and dispatch software with a nationwide network of 600+ credentialed transport providers and rideshare partners to get vulnerable patients to the right care at the right time. The company now delivers more than one million rides per month across all 50 states and has been profitable since 2024.
Tomorrow Health
Tomorrow Health is a New York-based health technology company that connects providers, payors, and durable medical equipment (DME) suppliers on a single platform so home-based care can be ordered, routed, and paid for without the usual paperwork chaos. Founded by Vijay Kedar and Casper co-founder Gabriel Flateman, it uses intelligent automation - and, increasingly, AI - to turn a process that historically took hours of faxes and phone calls into something closer to a clean digital order, serving more than 100 health plans and managing over $100 million in DME spend.